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Infinite Orbits , pushing the boundaries of in-orbit services with cutting-edge spacecraft driven by its own Rendez-Vous solution, an advanced Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation Solution, led by Adel Haddoud, Akshay Gulati, Manos Koumantakis, Marion Andrieux, Yasmin Hassan, and Jürgen Eisenbraun, has raised  a €40 million financing round from European Innovation Council Fund , along with Matterwave Ventures , Wind Capital , Balnord , IRDI , and Newfund Capital . This financin

Ursa Major , delivering mission-ready propulsion across missile defense, hypersonics, in-space mobility, and launch, led by Dan Jablonsky, Bill Nash, Brad Appel, and others, has closed  $100 million in its Series E funding round and received an additional $50 million in debt funding commitments. Investors include both new and long-term supporters of Ursa Major’s mission, including Eclipse , which led the round, and were joined by Woodline Partners , Principia Growth , XN, and

Leanspace , a European satellite operations technology provider, led by Guillaume Tanier, Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, and Gert Villemos, has raised  €10 million in Series A funding from new strategic investors: ISAI Cap Venture , Capgemini’s corporate venture arm, Qwaltec, 42CAP , Karista , and Arnaud Guérin, co-founder of military AI platform Preligens. Additional non-dilutive funding comes from Caisse d’Epargne and Bpifrance via the France 2030 strategic investment plan. The space

PowerLattice , the company reimagining power delivery for next-generation AI accelerators, led by Dr. Peng Zou, Gang Ren, and Sujith Dermal, has announced its emergence from stealth with $25 million in Series A funding jointly led by Playground Global  and Celesta Capital . The company’s power-delivery chiplet tightly couples power and compute, cutting total power needs by over 50% and effectively doubling performance. PowerLattice has raised $31 million to date. AI accelerat

Hummink , developer of High Precision Printing for Advanced Electronics and a spin-off of the prestigious physics lab of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and PSL University, led by Amin M'BARKI, Pascal Boncenne, Pr. Lydéric Bocquet, Alessandro Siria, Antoine Niguès, and Christophe Bureau, has secured  €15 million to expand the deployment of their patented High-Precision Capillary Printing (HPCaP) technology, co-led by  KBC Focus Fund ,  Cap Horn , and  Bpifrance , with foll

Catalyx Space , a space infrastructure company providing turnkey solutions for orbital missions across industries, led by Rifath Shaarook, Clinton Antony, Keerthan Chand Aluvala, Saqib Hussain, Niharika Naveen, and Thaneem Rayan, has secured  $5.4 million in seed funding led by venture capital firm Outlander VC , with participation from Arka Venture Labs , Lex Reddy, KDX Management LLC , Together Fund , Higher Life Ventures , Nivesha Ventures , Prana Tech Ventures , Bria, HF0

Forterra , defining the next domain of operations creating an ecosystem where intelligent systems coordinate and prevail across the battlefield, led by Josh Araujo, Joseph Putney, Scott Sanders, Colin Chisholm, Taylor Smith Baisey, and Alberto Lacaze, has announced  a $238 million Series C comprised of both equity and debt led by Moore Strategic Ventures with participation from new investors Salesforce Ventures , Franklin Templeton , Balyasny Asset Management , 645 Ventures ,

Self.co , a Lithuania-based company, helping you uncover the true cause of your symptoms and guide you toward the right path to better health, led by Tautvydas Gylys, Gintautas Gylys, and Juozapas Zabukas, has secured  €2.56 million in funding, including €1.2 million led by  Iron Wolf Capital , joined by  Coinvest , NGL Ventures , and several angel investors, and a €1.36 million government grant from Innovation Agency Lithuania . Nearly 40% of people worldwide suffer from all

YQuantum , a Swiss startup developing innovative hardware components, unleashing the full potential of quantum computing, led by Dr. Christian Jünger, Dr. Johannes Herrmann, and Prof. Christian Schönenberger, has secured  €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from  Venture Kick . YQuantum develops compact, high-performance cryogenic hardware to enhance the scalability of quantum systems. Its technology supports high-fidelity superconducting and spin-qubit operations, enabling larger and mor

Inversion Space , building autonomous, highly-maneuverable re-entry vehicles to deliver cargo and effects from space, led by Justin Fiaschetti, Austin Briggs, Jackson Kemper, III, Collin Corey, and others, has unveiled  the design of Arc, a spacecraft intended to deliver critical cargo from space to any point on Earth within an hour, landing on water, snow or soil with a precision of around 50 feet. The concept targets the defense sector, aligning with the U.S. military’s lon

Cambridge Photon Technology , transforming high-energy photons into silicon-optimised infrared light, led by Dr Claudio Marinelli, Prof. Akshay Rao, Adrian Watson, and others, has secured  £1,556,000, comprising £926,000 in equity investment from Cambridge Enterprise Ventures , Spectrum Impact , Tybourne Capital, Providence Investment Company, and SourceSquared and £630,000 Clean Energy and Climate Technologies grant from the UKRI Innovate UK  Investor Partnerships, enabled b

Gravitics , developer of orbital carrier, led by Colin Doughan, Sundeep Kumar, Scott Macklin, Michael DeRosa, Gary Hudson, and others, has unveiled  Diamondback, a smaller orbital carrier designed to fulfill missions from protecting US national security satellites to deploying space-based missile interceptors, on Tuesday at Payload’s Space Investor Summit. Gravitics CEO Colin Doughan likened the company’s orbital carrier model to a network of police stations: strategically po

LambdaVision , developer of protein-based artificial retinas, led by Nicole L. Wagner, Jordan A. Greco, and Robert R. Birge, has secured  $7 million seed funding round co-led by Seven Seven Six  and Aurelia Foundry Fund , with additional support from Seraphim Space , providing runway into 2027. Millions worldwide lose their vision each year to retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with limited treatment options. The new

Agate Sensors , democratizing spectral data capture and usage, led by Tommi Leino, Dr. Andreas Liapis, Mikael Westerlund, Dr. Faisal Ahmed, has been awarded  an innovation contract by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) under its Military Innovation Program.  The contract will enable the first external test of Agate Sensors’ physiological monitoring tech in high-stress defence settings, demonstrating how its wearable-embedded optical sensors can enhance awarenes

Coherence Neuro , a medical technology company working at the intersection of neurotechnology, neurobiology, and machine learning to improve the quality and length of life for people with cancer, led by Ben Woodington, Elise Jenkins, José Lepe, and Jason Miranda, has secured  a $10 million seed round led by Topology Ventures and Artesian (Alternative Investments), with participation from  Blackbird , Possible Ventures , and a network of early-stage backers, including XEIA V

Reflex Aerospace , manufacturer of high-performance satellite platforms, led by Walter Ballheimer, Alexander Genzel, Felix Motzki, Dennis Moore, Cecile Schirmer, and Henrik Rutzky, has raised  €50 million Series A funding led by Human Element  together with Alpine Space Ventures ,  Bayern Kapital , and HTGF , as well as additional German and European investors. The round will accelerate the build and deployment of sovereign satellite constellations across Optical, SAR, SDA, a

EnduroSat , engineering, building, and operating exceptional satellites, led by Raycho Raychev, Viktor Danchev, Yordan Kanchev, Viktoriya Dimov, and others, has secured  a $104 million funding round from Riot Ventures , Google Ventures , Lux Capital , European Innovation Council Fund , and Shrug Capital . The funding also marks the launch of our state-of-the-art Space Center in Sofia, built to meet rapidly accelerating global demand for small and mid-size satellite constellat

Cellcolabs , manufacturing High-Quality Mesenchymal Stromal Cells, led by Petter Hallman, Mattias Bernow, Lina Sörvik, Heidi Stensmyren, and others, has raised  $12 million in a round led by Titian Capital. Global demand for regenerative therapies is surging, yet high costs and limited production still restrict access for many patients. Stockholm-based Cellcolabs, founded in 2021 by Dr. Mattias Bernow, aims to change this through industrial-scale stem cell manufacturing. Its

Crusoe , the AI infrastructure company led by Chase Lochmiller, Cully Cavness, Matthew DeNezza, Nitin Perumbeti, Chris Dolan, Tara Green, and others, has announced  the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company's expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners  and Mubadala Capital , with participation from 137 Ventures , 1789 Capital , Activate Capital , Alt

Continue Research , a 2-year-old research effort to identify and study upstream mechanisms in biology, started by Deepinder Goyal, has announced a $25 million fund to back researchers, funded by personal investment, and is not a part of Eternal. The next breakthroughs in aging biology are hiding in plain sight, emerging not from added complexity but from uncovering foundational mechanisms that control everything downstream. A $25M fund supports researchers testing ideas so si